Benjamin conducts Goehr with London Sinfonietta

13 March 2007

Behold the Sun

ALEXANDER GOEHR

Booth was even more dazzling in Alexander Goehr's Behold the Sun, from 1982, an aria that was later absorbed in his 1985 opera of the same name. It came over as powerfully wrought and dramatically urgent; Booth handled its high-wire vocal writing with consummate ease.

Andrew Clements, The Guardian

powerfully wrought and dramatically urgent

Claire Booth sings Alexander Goehr's Behold the Sun in London Sinfonietta's concert Ligeti Remembered 1 at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall. Programme also includes Oliver Knussen's Requiem - Songs for Sue (London premiere) which includes some text by Rainer Maria Rilke's Requiem for a Friend in translation by Goehr.

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